Sep 2, 2025
pokemon may have more interesting illustrations and rare cards in their tcg and better rewards for competitive players and a more comprehensible game but they don’t have cupsy yummy. so.
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pokemon may have more interesting illustrations and rare cards in their tcg and better rewards for competitive players and a more comprehensible game but they don’t have cupsy yummy. so.
The thing tripping me up is that when stylized for comix the MtGs and Duel Monsters (or shall I say. Monsters and Wizards) end up looking really similar. Which is fair. Because everything is Magic the Gathering. It’s fucking MtG.
Toei had the right idea with their version of the M&W card backs in this regard but in practice it probably would have been annoying to draw over and over again if it were for a manga idk. it's MW
Anyways the stylization doesn't change when it turns into Duel Masters tcg rather than MtG which is great I guess because that's not what their card backs look like
I suppose all cards are Texture With Circle in manga land!
thinking about a concept i would have to call "card game apocalypse world" which is just a version of the world where duel masters and yugioh r taking place in the same world. concurrently more or less. genuine hellscape I think like really really bad. so many people are dying
It took me until a friend pointed it out but Duelmasters IS unexpectedly dark/violent for the target audience it is for. I’m so numb to cardgame violence. This is normal to me however Yugioh is a shonen and Duelmasters is for elementary school children and they’re at fairly comparable levels of violence and murder and kill. The experience is not unwelcome but it does make it jarring when the humour pops up and THAT is glaringly aimed for little boy’s hash tag Corocoro comix gags
had my first "why are we talking about Mai rn" moment with the duelmasters lads (protag's mom is named Mai. and I am a visitor from the duelmonsters)
girl get out of there that's the worst card freak to talk to
girl that's the wrong dragon
immediately filling in the younger cardgame protag on your particular situation I see...
Brain is fucked we had a duel masters dream. I was about to say “first” duel masters dream but that’s not quite true is it my first yugioh dream was about Kaiba hosting a duel masters tournament confusingly